Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: When thou my righteous judge shall come
Topic: Judgment
Writer: <no first name given> Countess of Huntington
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: CPM
Tune: Meribah
Hymn Number: 340
Page Number: 113, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHEN thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come,
To take thy ransomed people home,
Shall I among them stand?
Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?
I love to meet thy people now,
Before thy feet with them to bow,
Though vilest of them all;
But-can I bear the piercing thought?-
What if my name should be left out
When thou for them shalt call?
O Lord, prevent it by thy grace;
Be thou my only hiding-place
In this, th' accepted day;
Thy pardoning voice, O let me hear,
Nor let me fall, I pray.
And when the final trump shall sound,
Among thy saints let me be found,
To bow before thy face;
Then in triumphant strains I'll sing,
While heaven's resounding mansions ring
With praise of sovereign grace.